Simple Tips to Significantly Improve Rodent Surgical Outcomes
Join Dr. Marcel Perret-Gentil who will present six simple-to-implement techniques to significantly improve surgical outcomes.
Passive Avoidance Response in Rats: Effects of Handling and Novel Object Recognition
Storing aversive memories is important to survival, but learned avoidance responses decrease over time without reinforcement. Since little is known about the mechanisms behind this process, Bengoetxea de Tena et al. evaluated how naive rats respond to a learning and memory task under fear conditions in a recently published study, which we review in this blog post.
USDA Under Fire for Relaxing Animal Welfare Inspection Standards
Originally posted on Scientist.com, this article references a lawsuit filed by the Harvard Law School Animal Law and Policy Clinic against the United States Department of Agriculture for failing to conduct full annual inspections and highlights the need for an independent, transparent assessment program.
